Medicine Care Team

Dr. Imrie is a Clinical Hematologist at the Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He joined the faculty in 1995 after completing his MD at the University of Ottawa and residency training in Internal Medicine and Hematology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Imrie maintains an active clinical practice with a focus on malignant hematology with a special interest in T cell lymphoma. Along with Dr. Eugenia Piliotis, he participates in an inter-professional cutaneous lymphoma clinic along expert dermatologists seeing patients with skin lymphomas. Dr. Imrie does also see patients with undifferentiated hematologic problems from the Sunnybrook community. Dr. Imrie has an interest in virtual care, and offers eConsultations for primary care providers and video visits through the Ontario Telemedicine Network.

Dr. Imrie has served in a number of senior leadership roles with different organizations. From 2009-September 2019, he was Sunnybrook’s Physician-in-Chief and Chief of the Community Program. From 2015-2017 he was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and he remains actively committed to this organization chairing a number of projects including its task force on reaffirmation of competence. Dr. Imrie has also served as Vice-Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine and as Associate Dean in postgraduate medicine at the University of Toronto. He has previously served as Director of Postgraduate Programs in the Department of Medicine, as well as Core Internal Medicine Program Director and Hematology Training Program Director.

Dr. Imrie is actively involved in education leadership at provincial and national levels. He has served in a number of senior roles with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was the Network Lead for Hematology and Oncology for the College of Physicians and Surgeons Peer Assessment Program as well as being Co-Chair of the Hematology Disease Site Group for the Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care, where he has authored or supervised the development of numerous practice guidelines in Hematology. Dr. Imrie has led initiatives in Cancer Care including chairing an advisory panel on stem cell transplantation as well as serving as clinical lead for a provincial initiative to improve stage capture. Dr. Imrie has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and over 150 abstracts.

Dr. Imrie is a highly regarded teacher whose contributions have been formally recognized through the receipt of teaching awards in Internal Medicine, Clinical Hematology and Medical Oncology. In 2018 he received the prestigious Charles Mickle Fellowship from the University of Toronto recognizing work that has advanced medicine in Canada in the preceding 10 years. In 2015, he was awarded the CAME Ian Hart award for lifetime contribution to medical education in Canada. Dr. Imrie holds fellowships in the American College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians of London as well as honorary fellowships in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.